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[classy_cat18]

TV for me? The Adult Swim block on CN weeknights and Saturdays. Especially Wolf's Rain. I like wolves. *remembers that her username is classy_cat18* I love anime, so I also like to catch the Anime Unleashed hour every night on G4TechTV. Speaking of that channel, I like to watch XPlay on there so I can have some good idea on what game to want when I get enough money for it.

What else? Oh yeah, The Fresh Prince of Bel-air. Will Smith's freshest years caught on television.

[Pig on the Wing]

good to hear your dogs recovered mr_pikachu, and hopefully your new comp. won't screw around too much either. Damn technology...

meh, music wise, listen to: Nirvana, Guns 'n' Roses, Metallica, Pink Floyd, Iron Maiden, Velvet Revolver, Crowded House and Queen.

I usually watch:
My Family, The Simpsons, Only Fools And Horses, Futurama and any Monty Python sketches.

[Gavin Luper]

TV shows? I'd say Friends, Alias, Kath and Kim, All Saints (sad but true, it's got me hooked ever since I did a school assignment on it) and The Footy Show. Oh, and the Simpsons when I catch it.

Cheers!

[PancaKe]

^.^ It's been ages since I posted due to God, work, socializing, and sleep. but I'm here, so dont panic dont panic!

Um... I'm actually working on a new fic for anyone who cares, it's somehting that's sort of acting as my recovery of a severe writers block. And its non pokemon for those of u who are still caring.

TV shows? Um, I dont watch TV. Most I watch is Simpsons now during dinner. And maybe a bit of Aus Idol here and htere. But like, im tlaking one episode in like, 3 weeks?

[Suite Madame Blue]

m_p, glad to hear about your dog. Good luck with your comp problems.

Music I listen to: Aerosmith, Tom Petty, assorted 80's, Aerosmith, Enya, Zeppelin, Beatles, and Aerosmith. No, I don't have a one-track mind, why do you ask?

TV: Whose Line is it Anyway?, Law & Order, Boston Law (spinoff of The Practice), ER, West Wing, some reality TV, and the Stargates. Of course, for the next 2 weeks it'll be the Olympics. I love Tivo!

To branch out the discussion, will you be watching the Olympics? For US residents, what do you think about the people who say we shouldn't compete if we don't have a chance to win?

[mistysakura]

Yeah, I'll be watching the Olympics. I'm particularly interested in artistic and rhythmic gymnastics, and diving. I'm not sure if Australian TV channels will be showing rhythmic gymnastics though. As to the US people, although I'm not American, I think that that's not the point of sport, and if people who thought they didn't have a chance to win never competed, the Olympics would be awfully boring.

[PancaKe]

TV: Whose Line is it Anyway?, Law & Order, Boston Law (spinoff of The Practice), ER, West Wing, some reality TV, and the Stargates. Of course, for the next 2 weeks it'll be the Olympics. I love Tivo!

To branch out the discussion, will you be watching the Olympics? For US residents, what do you think about the people who say we shouldn't compete if we don't have a chance to win?

Damn I love Whose line. It's the best show ever! (bit of an addict). I only watch taped episodes tho cuz i dont have cable.

I'm not gonna watch the olympics. My work is sponsoring them but I really couldnt care that much. I kno I probably sound weird but hey, everybody has their own interests.

[mr_pikachu]

To branch out the discussion, will you be watching the Olympics? For US residents, what do you think about the people who say we shouldn't compete if we don't have a chance to win?

I'll be watching the Olympics as much as I can. And people say we don't have a chance to win? Even if that was true, all you have to do is look back to the last World Cup. The US has been pitiful year after year in soccer, but somehow we made it to the quarterfinals in the biggest soccer tournament in the world. No one thought that we had a chance to win that, either.

[Darien Shields]

When havins a discussion with my brother some years ago about the constant drug scandals at the olympics, he sparked upon an excellent idea. Instead of stopping anyone from having drugs, everyone should be pumped full of as many drugs as is humanly possible! Get that two minute mile! Who cares if they die- they die winners! And there's no possibillity that anyone will have an unfair advantage!

[classy_cat18]

When havins a discussion with my brother some years ago about the constant drug scandals at the olympics, he sparked upon an excellent idea. Instead of stopping anyone from having drugs, everyone should be pumped full of as many drugs as is humanly possible! Get that two minute mile! Who cares if they die- they die winners! And there's no possibillity that anyone will have an unfair advantage!

LOL! That's a great idea! Well, I'm going to cheer for Bermuda in behalf of my stepfamily even though they mainly be in the equestrian sports. And I'm cheering for USA during everything else, especially track & field. My cousin won a couple of gold metals in that event in 1984.

[Chris 2.1]

I find performing Athletics much much MUCH better than watching them. I do 100M for my country, I was beaten by some small guy But I also do long and high jumps - im tall, you see. Anywho, you get that rush of 'WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!' when you run, but not when you watch, so meh, I mightn't watch.

That swimmer dude...Ian Thorpe, he has Size 17 feet :-|

[mr_pikachu]

And I'm cheering for USA during everything else, especially track & field. My cousin won a couple of gold metals in that event in 1984.

You don't mean in the Olympics, do you? If you do... then I'm scared.

And I used to do track & field as well as cross country racing, but I stopped after sixth grade, I believe. I just had too much going on then to deal with the training.

btw, Darien... that's the most insane, yet realistic idea I've ever heard. But how would that help people who participate in speedwalking? (Yes, that is an event.) Should we pump them full of drugs needlessly?

[Suite Madame Blue]

btw, Darien... that's the most insane, yet realistic idea I've ever heard. But how would that help people who participate in speedwalking? (Yes, that is an event.) Should we pump them full of drugs needlessly?

Gotta agree with Darien and m_p! Insane, realistic...and hysterical. Speedwalking is a non-issue. Think about horse races where the horse has to trot and is disqualified if it breaks into a run. They can just stipulate in the rules that participants cannot break into a jog, which they probably already do. That would be damn funny to see drugged-up speedwalkers trying to restrain themselves.

As for the US participating, absolutely we should! It's more about sportsmanship than winning - the medals are just icing on the cake. I'm so sick of hearing all these whiners who say there's no point in going. You just know they've never really tried at anything they did.

[achooxp]

Warning: the study of the Japanese language is hazardous for your health!

Yesterday was my takehome midterm for Japanese 103, so I sucked it up and did all the studying that I hadn't really been doing. After approximately 12 hours of studying, I sat down and took the exam like an honest boy, no cheating, in an hour. At 3AM, utterly exhausted of that foolish language (Korean is obviously much superior ), I slept. I woke up at 6:30AM to study, but aha, here's the rub. CRACK went my neck, as I reached over to turn off the alarm. "Ouch!" said I, in response to my inability to put my neck back in its normal place.

I went to class today just to take the listening part of the exam and left for the Student Health Care Center for the first time ever. Thank God I don't have a misplaced disk. It's a cerebral/cervial (something) muscle spasm and I'm supposed to take muscle relaxers, take hot hot hot showers, use heat packs almost constantly, and take IB Profin every 8 hours with food. These said muscle relaxers also hamper one's abilitiy to speak. 昨日はあたたかくなかた、anyone? (add a mini “つ“　between the last two characters, because I can't figure out how to do it.) Romanized that says umm...

Kinowa atatakakunakatta; silly language it is.

[mr_pikachu]

Sorry about your neck. I pop mine about every 10 minutes, and I know it'll probably break someday. Ah well. We can't have everything, now can we?

I think you'll like this website if you take Japanese. It's worth seeing even if you don't, because I had a fit of laughter with it (and the closest thing I've taken is a year of Spanish).

http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~thoureau/japanese.html

I guarantee you'll love it.

Oh, btw...

Kinowa atatakakunakatta; silly language it is.

Does that word evolve into Beedrill? (I never realized you could make English Pokemon names with Japanese words...)

[Suite Madame Blue]

Kinowa atatakakunakatta; silly language it is.

And Hakuna Matata to you too, DE! Heh, I think I'll stick with Spanish. Hope your neck gets better.

[mistysakura]

huh? Yesterday wasn't warm? Hmm, that doesn't make sense... must be another definition of atatakai that I don't lknow. Anyway, I like Japanese, I'll be taking it as my language for years 11&12.

Hope your neck gets better.

[classy_cat18]

Does that word evolve into Beedrill? (I never realized you could make English Pokemon names with Japanese words...)

Lots of English Pokemon names come from their Japanese counterparts. Like Heracross comes from Herakurosu (sp?). I don't know what it means.

You don't mean in the Olympics, do you? If you do... then I'm scared.

Yeah, I do. Alonzo Babers, gold medal winner of the 400m and 4x400m (or one of them) race. He's related to the Gholston family, and that makes him my cousin.

[Darien Shields]

Heracross = Heracles + Cross.
There are lots of beetles named after mythical brutes, the goliath for instance, I expect there is one named the Heracles. If not, then the reasoning behind this name is clear; the beatle possessed Herculean Strength, thus Heracles (the greek spelling of the hero's name, which was later adopted by the romans who called him "Hercules".)
As for Cross... is his horn crossed? Maybe he's just cross as in angry. I dunno.

But anyway, "Kakuna" means "Cocoon" roughly. Since the japanese use a phonetica alphabet they can't just throw in a "c" a couple "o"s and an "n", they have to go for "Ka", "Ku" and "Na". However, it might be pronounced as "Cacoon" or something similar. The same is true for Heracross. I think a lot of pokemon sites list things like this with figured out names rather than the phonetic ones. Check pokemon forever, I think it lists Kakuna's japanese name as Cocoon.

Humm humm, super athlete you say? Are you related genetically or by marriage?

[classy_cat18]

But Heracross's Japanese name is Herakurosu. I checked it out on serebii.net.

Humm humm, super athlete you say? Are you related genetically or by marriage?

Genetically. He's my third cousin. Had to ask my mom about that one. She knows the family a lot better than me.

[Darien Shields]

But Heracross's Japanese name is Herakurosu. I checked it out on serebii.net.

>_<

His Japanese name is Heracross, the Japanese just can't spell Heracross because they have a phonetic alphabet. For instance "Aisu Kurimu" means "Ice Cream", (it is pronounced similarly), and is adopted directly from english. They can't write "Cross" because of the double constenants... The kana just don't add up.

In future check Pokemon Forever which is a much better site, and lists the names as what they're supposed to be, in this case "Heracros".

Booya.

P.S. You had the 100th reply! Woo!

[dratinihaunter13]

hey everybody. my big news is the three day road trip i'm taking to tucson arizona by myself. i start off in kansas city, drive 6 hrs to oklahoma city, sleep, 8-9 hrs to albuquerque next day, sleep, 7-8 hrs to tucson next day. On paper, there's no way i could have the patience for this! hopefully i can find a way to pull it out. wish me luck.. and that i don't get carjacked kidnapped or fall asleep at the wheel . this is gonna suck.

[achooxp]

hey everybody. my big news is the three day road trip i'm taking to tucson arizona by myself. i start off in kansas city, drive 6 hrs to oklahoma city, sleep, 8-9 hrs to albuquerque next day, sleep, 7-8 hrs to tucson next day. On paper, there's no way i could have the patience for this! hopefully i can find a way to pull it out. wish me luck.. and that i don't get carjacked kidnapped or fall asleep at the wheel . this is gonna suck.

That's crazy far. That's longer than it would take to drive from NJ to Chicago, and I think the distance is so bad that I buy plane tix. I also don't have a car, but that's insignificant. You crazy man.

[Suite Madame Blue]

Hey, drive safe dh13! Road trips is fun. Hope you're staying long enough in Tucson to justify the drive. Stock up on no-doze and red bull before you go, and bring plenty of loud, obnoxious music for the drive - that mellow stuff will put you to sleep. As far as carjacking, ummm...make sure your insurance is up to date, and wear your cell phone at all times. Sorry, that's the best I can think of. Have lots of fun, and we'll see you when you get back.

[PancaKe]

Why r u going by yourself? Why go that far alone? That would be so lonley! I couldn't do it alone just because I'd get bored and lonley.

[Gavin Luper]

Whoa that's a loooong way. Have fun DH, driving through the middle of nowhere (is it the middle of nowhere? Isn't Kansas a dust bowl?) ... drive safe, don't drink and drive, dial before you dig ... etc ... oh, and don't give a lift to people with hatchets in their back pocket

Nah, enjoy yourself ... bon voyage!

[Darien Shields]

Long, boring, lonely drives are often subject to alien abduction. Keep a keen eye on your watch for misssing time! (It's most likely to happen at night though, so you ought to be safe driving during the day.)

*yawn* Urk, I feel terrible. I've got School next week so I'm trying to get back to a normal sleep cycle, so I set an alarm clock up to go off at 10... only problem was that I went to bed at five in the morning, not midnight. On the bright side I got a lot of writing done during the night.

[PS100]

Isn't Kansas a dust bowl?)

I thought Kansas City was in Missouri? Kansas is east of the Mississippi, and Missouri's west, and he's driving west... So he isn't gonna touch Kansas.Though by all means he will be driving through the middle of nowhere.

Good luck, DH13. I find it hard enough to drive 3 hours with other people. I can't imagine how bad it's gonna be driving 3 days with nobody. Drive safe.

PS

[Gavin Luper]

Damn Americans. What other country would have "Kansas City" somewhere other than Kansas? It doesn't make any sense!

In other news ... ummm ... I started writing today. Hooray. And nothing else happened. At all. For those who are thinking What the Hell, I'm really REALLY tired right now.

Cheers!

[Chris 2.1]

I think I'll jus tell you all what I'm doing :-/

Well atm it's the summer holidays. All my mates get to go abroad and away and get nice and tanned, but we can't go away because my Gran's just died. My grandad never did any cooking, cleaning, made beds or anything, so now Gran's passed away, we need to sort of re-educate Grandad on how to use a microwave and make a bed etc all.

So anyway, my best mate FINALLY gets home, only to tell me he's seeing his gf like ALL THE TIME cos he's missed her 'like hell' since he's been gone. So I'm just writing. I'm writing Lucky Charms atm, finishing up Ch4, seeing as I like to keep on top of my chapters. MR's nearly finished, so between MR Chappies I write LC ones. It's weird....

ANYWAY I'm currently talking to Ozandrew on MSN, thats usually funny, exchanging fic ideas and making me laugh etc all. And feeding my dog while eating myself. (Not ACTUALLY eating myself, but myself is eating...)

[achooxp]

For those who care, *looks around frantically, finding nobody* , I AM FINISHED WITH THAT DAMNED JAPANESE CLASS AS OF TODAY! True, I probably failed the final, but but but... In respect for my dead GPA, I wore all black to class today.

I still really like smilies. Yay for having a semilife and NO HOMEWORK! It's time to party in Chicago! ^__^ It ain't no New York though... but wait! Oh! 2 weeks of home beckons! NY will be ravaged too! Muahahahahaha.

And to think, I was starting to feel old this summer.

[PancaKe]

I miss summer. Here i am, suffering in winter.

Anyway - good things first: I saved up my money and bought a PS2 - finally So now I've got a PS2 with singstar. i'm saving up and I'm going to get DDR on it as well. [I'm the latest ddr addict]

Bad news: i'm tired.
and I hate work experience.
mine is really screwey. First the guy thats organizing it took stress leave for three weeks, durin my work ex, and left it unfinished. then next mum goes im not allowed to go to one of the places because its too far away something like that so im like bleh now.

yeah

im so stresed out its eatn away at me.

[Suite Madame Blue]

PancaKe: Man, if only we all had mothers to say, "Your commute's too far, you can't work there, find someplace closer." Have you tried talking to your mom about her reasons? She may be just responding to the fact that the guy took stress leave, and nothing's organized. Good luck.

Congratulations on your new PS2 though! Try de-stressing a little with that, but don't overdo it.

DE: YAY! No classes! Chicago & NY won't be the same after you get through tearin' it up. :beer: Have a margarita for me!

[Pig on the Wing]

mwa ha ha, still another two weeks before I go back to school

anyways, two things of slight importance to me, so fear me:

1) My band's changed slightly and we're now in search of a bass player. We also got turned down by all the record labels on account of we're too young. Our music sucked really, I know the truth...

2) I'm going away camping in Worcstershire (sp?) tomorrow, to go and walk the Malvern hills, yay! Away till Friday, c'ya all then I guess...

[Darien Shields]

I went back to school today too. Damn you S19! Damn the English! They've got yonks yet too, because they only got out a few weeks ago.

BTW, Transformers for the PS2, Brilliant. I got a PS2 in Japan a few years ago, and had a nightmare chipping it. Hardly played anything, until I got FF X, then the disc broke, and I didn't use it again for ages. But Transformers has shown me the way ^_^. Although I have loads of good games for the Cube.

Does anyone here have a Live Journal? I got mind in summer, and it's been a lot of fun, you should all get 'em. I'm http://www.livejournal.com/users/tdarien_shields/ BTW, if anyone's interested. It's preeetty long though. See, I like to talk.

[dratinihaunter13]

ack, finally.

thanks for all the tips and well-wishing everybody, and before i get to why i'm so late, some clarification on kansas city.

Kansas City is partly in Kansas and partly in Missouri. I live in Kansas City, Kansas, so I did not have to touch Missouri. Most of Kansas is farmland, but I don't think we've been called a Dust Bowl since the 30's or something . Kansas City can be a very active town.

Went south through Wichita to oklahoma city and I was gonna overnight there. I made it, feeling pretty good, but on the way into the city my fifth gear started popping out of place, me driving stick. So i have to hold it there til my arm goes numb, in which case i stop, regain feeling, then hold it there again for as many miles as possible. by the time i get to the hotel i think the problem's gone away. So i get up the next morning and leave to Albuquerque, New Mexico. Car's working great, I'm working great, man this wasn't so bad after all. New Mexico's speed limit is 75 so i decide i'm gonna gun it from the texas border to albuquerque. car didn't like that idea. The fifth just stops working entirely and my car breaks down. I get it to, of all places, Tucumcari New Mexico. ever heard of it? ME NEITHER. luckily they have a ford dealer there who i leave my car with. i cancel the hotel in albuquerque and get a night in tucumcari. Penny from the dealership says they will have to order a part and the soonest they can get it is in 2 days (friday). so i get another night at the tucumcari hotel. left my car in the parking lot, and that afternoon tucumcari decided to have a hail storm. good thing i had a window in the hotel looking onto my car so i could see the spheres of rock hard ice striking my blue paint job. i check the next morning, no serious damage, but still i politely ask life to leave me alone already.

i'm ready to check out friday morning (after i don't know how many hours of watching tv in the hotel room and being more bored than you could imagine) and complete this challenge of a drive, but penny calls and tells me that morning, "listen martin, we uh, ordered the wrong part for your car, soooo it's not gonna be ready til monday." "but i start school on monday, i have to be in tucson on monday." "well, i suggest you find a way to get there then."

...

i proudly tried to be polite and got a ride to tucumcari's greyhound station, leaving my car there for my dad to pick up sometime later (i already paid parking for the university campus, btw, so that's wasted). great, college without a car, again. the bus station isn't so much a station as it is a desk with four thin walls around it and four chairs outside. i find a bus to tucson and ride with some wily kids and interesting weirdos. i get to tucson but whoops! my bags didn't make the trip! i slap myself, cuz i should have seen this coming really. i mean, why not, ya know. i'm surprised the bus didn't break down. my bags eventually came later and after my first day of classes i'm already exhausted, but at least in good health. THE END.

oh, and i can't find my wires for computer/internet in my dorm, so it might be a while til i'm posting again. gotta find those wires. good luck to everybody starting school, bring home some good grades for the folks .

[mr_pikachu]

Damn Americans. What other country would have "Kansas City" somewhere other than Kansas? It doesn't make any sense!

The same people who have a Miami in both Florida and Oklahoma. You learn to live with it.

And dh13, sorry about your trip. That wasn't what you were hoping for, I'm sure. I hope the next one (if there is a next one) goes better. And good luck in school! I'm in college too, now... we'll see if I can struggle through it!

btw, how was Oklahoma? Did you even get to it? Who knows, maybe I saw you driving your car by... obviously, I live in Oklahoma. Apparantly we live somewhat close. We Central-US guys have to stick together!

So... is your car still in that ghost town, or has your dad picked it up yet? If he hasn't, when is he planning to, if at all?


P.S. Sorry about your dorm room, too. I had a similar problem when I plugged a regular phone cord into my computer. >_> But anyway, hope things start going better for you!

[dratinihaunter13]

I did get all the way through oklahoma mr. pika, and it was very nice ^_^. midwest baby. my dad's picking the car up today, then bringing back to kansas. i'll just have it for next semester in college. bummer though =(. My computer's hooked up and everything now (after i bought stuff >_<) so that's good, and now i gotta worry about the whole education thing. still, things are starting to flow a little better again, thanks.

and sorry bout the stress mist. these things tend to happen and waves ya know, just ride the rough ones and set yourself up for good breaks, like saving for the ddr. thank goodness for ddr .

[Suite Madame Blue]

Sorry to hear about your car, dh13, but I'm glad you got there safely. Good luck this semester. Remember, the library is your friend, especially when your neighbors start partying Thursday afternoon.

[Darien Shields]

While Americans have their crazy city thing, we have crazy street and road things. Prime example, Oxford Street (which Brits will know from Monopoly) is in London, not Oxford. In my town we have a street named after the neighbouring city... and when it goes into the neighbouring city the name changes to the name of our town!

So, DH13, you didn't say, meet your future wife in Tucumcari? I've heard lots of stories in movies of terrible luck that landed people in bad situations- where they met the love of their life, or made their fortune etc. etc. I guess that this is just one of those bad events though, huh? ^_^;;